See the shark with teeth like razors
 You can read his open face
 And Macheath, he's got a knife, and
 In such an obvious place
 On a beautiful blue Sunday,
 See a corpse stretched in the Strand
 See a man dodge 'round the corner...
 Mackie's friends will understand.
 Mr. Meier reported missing
 Like so many wealthy men:
 Mack the knife acquired his cashbox
 God alone knows how or when
 Jenny Towler, she turned up lately
 With a knife stuck through her breast
 While Macheath, he walks the embankment,
 Nonchalantly unimpressed
 And the ghastly fire in Soho,
 Seven children at a go--
 In the crowd stands Mac the knife, but
 He isn't asked, he doesn't know
 And the child bride in her nightgown,
 Whose assailants still at large
 Violated in her slumbers
 Mackie how much did you charge?
 Yes, the child bride in her nightgown
 her assailants still at large
 Violated in her slumbers
 Mackie how much did you charge?
 Mackie how much did you charge?
 How much did you charge?
 How much did you charge?
 How much did you charge?
 How much did you charge?